Abstract, Two Women with Tennis Racquets
Carl Newman
Abstract, Two Women with Tennis Racquets, c. 1870-1932
Drawing
Courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum
In this composition, Carl Newman fractures the tennis match into angled planes and compressed space, filtering sport through a Cubist vocabulary of intersecting lines and muted yet charged color, with rackets, limbs, and torsos interlocking like constructed parts. Send to the game that is yet to fully materialize, as a promise that with the next sunny day, you will be in full form, ready to play. With thanks to the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Carl Newman
Abstract, Two Women with Tennis Racquets, c. 1870-1932
Drawing
Courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum
In this composition, Carl Newman fractures the tennis match into angled planes and compressed space, filtering sport through a Cubist vocabulary of intersecting lines and muted yet charged color, with rackets, limbs, and torsos interlocking like constructed parts. Send to the game that is yet to fully materialize, as a promise that with the next sunny day, you will be in full form, ready to play. With thanks to the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
